'"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark. he can not tell you that his parents were poor but honest" (Bertrand Russel)
Is a language the exclusive property of the human species?The idea of talking animals is as widespread among human societies as language itself. All cultures have legends in which some animals play a speaking role, like a story of a crocodileand a mouse deer. All over West Africa, children listen to folktales in which a "spider-man" is the hero. "Coyote" is a favourite figure in many Native American tales, and many an animal takes the stage in Aesop's famous fables. The fictional Doctor Doolittle's forte was communicating with all manner of animals, from giants snailsto a tiny sparrow.
If language is viewed only as system of communication, then many species communicate. Human also use system other than language to relate each other and to send and receive "message", like so-called body language. "The question is whether the communication systems used by other species are at all like human linguistic knowledge, which is acquired by children with no external instruction, and which is used creatively rather than in response to internal or external stimuli.
Comment Policy : Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, saepe gubergren sed id, et est posse insolens temporibus, alterum blandit offendit est et. Quando vocibus nam at. Quo malis detraxit ut, eu nulla decore mentitum, eu ferri postulant urbanitas pri. Nihil consul viderer vel ea, vel doctus accusamus gloriatur ut. Elitr iuvaret.